Acronis Backup Server

Backup solution for carefree business

Acronis Backup Server provides a local and cloud backup and recovery solution. It enables a best-in-class solution that addresses your customers’ data protection needs and provides you with a solution that is easy, complete, and safe. It solves business data protection challenges with a complete and easy-to-manage service that backs up any data from any source and recovers to any destination or system.

Acronis Backup Server operates in a fully automated way, offers unrivalled ease-of-management and supports various operating systems. It offers you the peace of mind that comes with the knowledge that your data is safely stored at all times.

It is recommended that you encrypt all backups that are stored in the cloud storage, especially if your company is subject to regulatory compliance.

IMPORTANT!There is no way to recover encrypted backups if you lose or forget the password.

Encryption in a backup plan

To enable encryption, specify the encryption settings when creating a backup plan. After a backup plan is applied, the encryption settings cannot be modified. To use different encryption settings, create a new backup plan.

To specify the encryption settings in a backup plan:

On the backup plan panel, click Encryption.

Click Yes.

Specify and confirm the encryption password.

Select one of the following encryption algorithms:

AES 128 – the backups will be encrypted by using the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm with a 128-bit key.

AES 192 – the backups will be encrypted by using the AES algorithm with a 192-bit key.

AES 256 – the backups will be encrypted by using the AES algorithm with a 256-bit key.

Bootable media is a CD, DVD, USB flash drive, or other removable media that enables you to run the agent without the help of an operating system. The main purpose of bootable media is to recover an operating system that cannot start. We highly recommend that you create and test a bootable media as soon as you start using disk-level backup. Also, it is a good practice to re-create the media after each major update of the backup agent.

You can recover either Windows or Linux by using the same media. To recover OS X, create a separate media on a machine running OS X.

To create bootable media in Windows or Linux

Download the bootable media ISO file. To download the file, select a machine, and then click Recover> More ways to recover... > Download ISO image.

Do any of the following:

Burn a CD/DVD using the ISO file.

Create a bootable USB flash drive by using the ISO file and one of the free tools available online.

NOTE: Use ISO to USB or RUFUS if you need to boot an UEFI machine, Win32DiskImager for a BIOS machine. In Linux, using the dd utility makes sense.

Connect the ISO file as a CD/DVD drive to the virtual machine that you want to recover.

To create bootable media in OS X

On a machine where Agent for Mac is installed, click Rescue Media Builder on the Applications menu.

The software displays the connected removable media. Select the one that you want to make bootable.

In order to download files from cloud storage in Acronis, you need to:

Select the machine that was backed up.

Click Recover> Morewaystorecover... > Downloadfiles.

Enter the credentials of the account to which the backed up machine is assigned.

When browsing disk-level backups: Under Versions, click the backup from which you want to recover the files.

When browsing file-level backups: You can select the backup date and time in the next step, under the gear icon located to the right of the selected file. By default, files are recovered from the latest backup.

Browse to the required folder or use search to obtain the list of the required files and folders.

Select the check boxes for the items you need to recover, and then click Download. If you select a single file, it will be downloaded as is. Otherwise, the selected data will be archived into a .zip file.

In order to recover your folders or files through Acronis web interface, you need to:

Select the machine which originally contained the data that you want to recover.

Click Recovery.

Select the recoverypoint. Recovery points are filtered by location.

Click Recoverfiles.

Select the files that you want to recover.

Click Recover.

Select the recovery destination. You can select the original location or any local or network folder.

Files from virtual machines are recovered to the machine where Agent for VMware or Agent for Hyper-V is installed. If you select Original location, the software will reproduce the original path on this machine. If you select a network folder, it must be accessible from that machine.

Click Recover.

If the files are recovered to the original location, select one of the file overwriting options:

Overwrite existing files

Overwrite an existing file if it is older

Do not overwrite existing files

The recovery progress is shown in the Statuscolumn for the machine.

NOTE: If the machine is offline, the recovery points are not displayed. In this case you can use other ways to recover: